Answer:
(i)
As a boy from a Gujarati bania family, he usually wore a shirt with a dhoti or pyjama
and sometimes a coat.
(ii) When he went to London to study law as a boy of 19 in 1888, he cut
off the tuft on his head and dressed in a Western suit so that he would not be
laughed at.
(iii) On his return, he continued to wear Western suits,
topped with a turban.
(iv) As a lawyer in Johannesburg, South Africa in the
1890s, he still wore Western clothes.
(v) In Durban in 1913, Gandhiji first appeared in a lungi
and kurta with his head shaved as a sign of mourning to protest against the
shooting of Indian coal miners.
(vi) On his return to India, he decided to dress like a Kathiawadi
peasant.
(vii) In 1921, he adopted the short dhoti, the form of
dress he wore until his death.
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